The wind was gentle but chilly in the midst of the night. Reynold,
Beca, Skylar and I were doing absolutely nothing! We had just finished
the Harry Potter movie marathon and now we were feeling completely at
lost. I was just about to doze off when Reynold suddenly shouted “I’ve
got an idea!”. Feeling suddenly energized, I asked him what it was.
“Let’s go to the house on 24th street!” said Reynold all excited. Our
jaws dropped as soon as we heard his supposed-to-be great idea. Everyone
knew the house on 24th street but no one had
ever been brave enough to actually set foot there. Legend had it that
the house used to be a funeral home in the olden days. Beca and Skylar
shook their heads furiously at the thought of the house on 24th street.

“It’s just a legend! How could you believe something as ridiculous as
that?” whined Reynold who was getting bored by the minute. He tried
hard to persuade us to nuckle under his idea. After his endless rants,
we finally agreed to go to the house even though it was already 2 a.m.
in the morning. We packed up a few things and started walking mindlessly
towards the “haunted house”. Truth be told, I was a scaredy cat and I
had every intention to run as fast as I could back to my house. My
intentions were put to a halt by Reynold’s dare of staying overnight in
the house. Shivers ran down my spine just by looking at the sight of the
eerie house. After exchanging looks with one another, we recited a
silent prayer and moved closer towards the house. I definitely had a bad
feeling about how things were going.

The front door was slightly ajar so it made things easier for us as
we did not have to break down any doors. The house was pitch-black when
we entered. Beca tried to find the switch to turn the lights on but to
no avail. To our surprise, there was no light switch at all. I could see
Skylar backing away slowly as he was so scared and it actually
delighted me a little. We decided to separate into our own ways to
discover the house even more. It all seemed like a good plan until we
were all walking alone in the dark. Such a ridiculous idea and all
thanks to Reynold! I was getting tired and emotional of the dark and so I
did what every other teenager would do- I took out my camera and began
taking pictures in order to use the light from the camera flash to guide
the way. It seemed to work because I managed to see where I was going
until suddenly a figure appeared before me!

I screamed as loud as I could and dropped my camera. Skylar came
rushing into the room followed by Reynold and Beca. I started telling
them what had happened and handed them my camera as proof of the figure I
saw. What happened next made my knees weak and my heart pound faster
than a bullet train. The pictures inside the camera were pictures of me-
all of them. I had one thought and one thought only; I needed to get
out of the house as quickly as possible. We were just about to leave
when it started raining cats and dogs. Oh great, how perfect could the
night get? We were having doubts about staying until morning but we were
also having doubts about walking in the rain at the time of night. We
all made the courageous decision of staying together in the house for
the night.

We could not get any sleep because of all the eerie noises we heard.
It kept waking us up. We ended up ransacking the whole house to find out
what really happened there throughout the olden days. We found no
evidences of what had happened in the house but we did find an article
about three teenagers that were found dead inside that very house. The
reason behind their deaths was still a mystery up until today. Beca,
Skylar and Reynold decided to call it a night and went downstairs to
sleep. Being the brave one all of a sudden, I continued ransacking the
house in hope to find out more about those three teenagers. What a
tragic death could that have been for them.

I woke up to the sound of non-stop banging on the front door. Feeling
a little light-headed, I hurriedly opened the front door of the house
which was suprisingly locked. I was astonished to find two police
officers before my very eyes. They told me that they had heard loud
noises and the sound of people screaming for help. I explained that it
was probably the sound of the four of was screaming while we were scared
out of our wits last night. The officers exchanged looks of confusion
among them. They told me to stay outside while they searched for
Reynold, Beca and Skylar inside the house. A few moments later, they
came out and told me something that sent shivers all through my body.

“The house is empty, miss. It has been empty all night long. You are
the only one there throughout the night.” said the elderly police
officer.

He then showed me the CCTV recording of the house throughout the
night. I was baffled. Did I go inside the haunted house with my friends
or with my “friends”?